Company Background

Gordon E. Smith co-founded Canaudit in 1985 to provide both professional development and consulting services to the international audit community. Gordon is the original developer of the Canaudit Penetration Testing methodology and the integrated audit concept, which are now recognized as the industry standards for technical security auditing worldwide. Gordon's contribution to the audit industry is well known and respected. Listed in the Who's Who of Leading American Executives, Gordon won the 2002 Wasserman Award, and has two books to his credit: Network Auditing: A Control Assessment Approach and Control and Security of E-commerce (John Wiley and Sons).

From his roots in the banking industry, Gordon led Canaudit to expand its expertise to several other industries by attracting some of the top audit consultants into its ranks. All our professionals specialize in high-tech audits and are renowned experts in auditing complex networks, operating systems, databases and forensics.

Today, Canaudit, with corporate offices located in Simi Valley, California, is highly regarded in the international audit field for it high level of integrity, thoroughness and technical expertise for over twenty-five years. Now poised for the future, Canaudit is reaching out to information security officers and others who are responsible for the security of information systems. Building on the belief that security is not just the job of the auditing department, Canaudit is unifying organizations to the one common goal: Complete Information Security.

For more information, read the Canaudit Core Beliefs.